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Daily hansan
50th Year, No. 120
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Fridav. April 3, 1953
Truman Claims Ammo Okay During His Term
Coconut Island, T.H. (U.P.) - Former President Truman says that during his tour of duty in the White House "there was never any serious ammunition shortage anywhere."
Mr. Truman was host to members of the press yesterday at the island vacation retreat and in reference to the Korean situation said, "there was never any serious ammunition shortage anywhere, but we were not able to produce enough to supply such areas at NATO and Indochina."
He did not pursue the question further and would not draw conclusions on current national and international developments because he was "no longer in position to get all the facts when I must have to base an opinion"
The former chief executive said he would not speak on such matters as a "private citizen" because "you don't want the opinion of a private citizen."
Mr. Truman said he was hoping the current Russian peace overtures were "in earnest" but warned against 'undue" optimism until all developments materialize.
Neither Mrs. Truman nor Margaret appeared during the two hour visit of the newsmen.
Manhattan Slates First Air Flights
Manhattan -- (U,J) - Manhattan's first scheduled airline service was set to begin Monday, city manager W. B. Avery, announced today.
The service came here after the city had voted a year ago to match federal funds of $55,000 for lengthening existing runways and providing other facilities.
Final inspection of the airport was scheduled today.
There were to be two flights daily each way. Flights east to Kansas City and other points were to leave and 11:25 a.m. and 9:22 p.m.
Westbound flights to Denver were to leave at 8:16 a.m. and 8:15 p.m.
Third Jet Lost This Week
Anchorage, Alaska — (U.P.)— The third F-94B all-wheater jet plane lost here this week was reported missing last night by the Alaska command at Elmendorf Air Force base.
German Club Hears Singers
A group of songs by Brahms, Schubert, and Mendelssohn was sung by Harriet King, fine arts junior, and Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, at a meeting of the German club yesterday.
TO HEAD COMMITTEE-Jerry Brownlee (left), college senior, and Ed Taylor, business senior, were named Thursday to head the Kansas Relays student committee. Both have served as underclassmen on the 19-student committee for three years.
FACTS, Pach Plan Platforms, Primaries
FACTS party considered the planks in its platform last night, and is expected to adopt the platform in its final form Monday, April 13, according to Dennis Henderson, college junior and FACTS president.
Henderson commended the issues committee headed by Marc Hurt, college sophomore, for the work they did in forming the statements contained in the platform.
Many of the candidates to be sponsored by FACTS in the April 22 general election attended the meeting, Henderson said, "so they could help form a platform that really says where they stand."
Today's Issue the Last
Today's issue of the Daily Kansas will mark the last one until Monday, April 13, when classes resume after Easter vacation.
Communists Arrest Three Americans
Berlin,—(U.P.)—Soviet troopers and Communist East German police today arrested two American soldiers and an American woman who "trespassed" on Soviet occupied territory.
The three were seized by the Russian soldiers and Red police when they strayed onto a short stretch of East German territory which cuts across the highway connecting the American sector of Berlin and the American checkpoint on the super-highway from West Berlin to West Germany.
Pachacamac last night decided to conduct "back-to-the-house" primaries to nominate their candidates for men's and women's Senatorial positions from the college for the All Student Council Senate.
Wednesday's primary ballot omitted several names, it was explained. Each Pach-NOW-FOR house it to vote preferentially on the candidates. Further nominees to run as students not living in organized houses will be voted upon.
President Larry Loftus, college sophomore, read to the Inner Circle the party's tentative platform. It was accepted with the understanding that further revision and additions might be made by the party's executive council.
ASC treasurer Dana Anderson, college freshman, explained that the ASC seems to over-spend itself yearly. Loftus was instructed by vote of the group to appoint a group to study the problem and make recommendations to the next ASC treasurer.
In other business, the group decided to back any ASC measure which might be proposed asking funds to send two University debaters to a national tournament in Ithaca, N.Y.
--men's names would be announced only after they were returned to Allied hands.
Professor Sings Church Solo
James Nickerson, associate professor of music education, sang a tenor solo, "The Seven Last Words," by Dubois, at the Countryside Christian church at Mission, Kan., Thursday night.
Jess Rose, a former K.U. student, is director of the Countryside church choir.
UN Questions Red Motives
Tokyo — (U.P.)—United Nations negotiators, who go to Panmunjom Monday to discuss the return of sick and wounded prisoners, said today they have important questions to ask the Communists before full-dress armistice talks can be re-opened.
Gen. Mark Clark was expected today to send a formal reply to the Communists agreeing to the Pamunjun meeting Monday. The Monday will be arranging for the exchange of the sick and wounded.
The Allied negotiators, headed by Rear Admiral John C. Daniel want satisfactory answers from the Reds to the questions before they agree to hold formal sessions on the armistice.
The questions are:
1. What do the Reds mean by turning down the "principle of voluntary repatriation" of prisoners of war while agreeing that the POWs would not be returned to their homelands against their will?
2. What did Chinese Communists
Fighting along the 155-mile battleline flared increasingly yesterday and today. The Reds threw their biggest attack since the opening of the "peace offensive" against the South Koreans on the central front yesterday.
"We do not want to announce people are back until we see them on our side of the line," an officer said. "we don't want any disappointments."
Army officers said names of Allied troops on Communist lists probably will not be released. They said the
The South Koreans attacked the Communist offer as a "tricky and time-consuming proposal. A National Assembly resolution does not punish the aggressors "sows seeds of further disasters and a larger war."
Today 200 Reds hit an American position on the central front but were routed after a two hour battle.
The South Korean government has consistently opposed an armistice that does not provide for unification of South and North Korea.
In Korea, meanwhile, U.S. Marines rushed preparations to receive the Allied sick and wounded, if the exchange takes place. The Marines cleared areas for hospitals and brought in medical supplies. Laborers patched roads and the single rail line leading to Munsan.
It was learned plans were approved for the emergency construction of a processing center, and hospitals for American and South Korean prisoners.
Campus Shifts To Ghost Town
By TOM STEWART
Premier Chou En-Lai in a broadcast and an offer to the UN early this week mean by a "neutral nations." Some 38,000 Red prisoners held by the allies have said they do not want to return to Communist countries. Under Premier Chou's proposal they would be turned over to a "neutral nation." The Allied negotiators want a clear definition of a "neutral nation" in Communist plans.
By noon tomorrow Mt. Oread will be well into the process of change which turns a bustling, populated community into a tem-
Three Receive Study Grants
Two KU mathematics instructors and a former student have received study fellowships for next year from the National Science foundation.
Dr. John L. Kelley is the recipient of the postdoctoral award and Kenneth R. Lucas of a predoctoral award. Former student Arthur H. Kruse, who received both his B.A. and M.A. degrees from KU also received a predoctoral fellowship.
The National Science foundation fellowship was established by act of Congress in 1950. This is the second year awards have been made. Approval for fellowships in mathematics were awarded throughout the United States.
Dr. Kelley took his undergraduate work at UCLA and his graduate work at the University of Virginia. During World War II he did research in ballastics at the Aberdine proving station, at Hearn so also was with Notre Dame, University of Chicago, University of California, and Tulane.
Dr. Kelley has written two books in connection with his research, one on exterior ballistics, and one on general aircraft systems, the University as visiting professor.
Kenneth R. Lucas, who received an intermediate predoctoral fellowship from the foundation, has been at KU as a graduate of Washburn university.
Dr. P. O. Bell received the first postdoctoral fellowship last year. He is now on leave from the University.
Photo Course Opens Sunday
The second annual photo-journalism short course will be held here Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, co-sponsored by the National Press Photographers association, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. and the School of Journalism.
John Colt, news editor of the Kansas City Star, will give the keynote address at 9 a.m. Monday. The afternoon session will be on "The Editor - Reporter - Photographer Team," moderated by Joseph Costa, chairman of the board of the National Press Photographers association.
Discussion groups on color photography, sports pictures, cameras and photo composition, printing techniques, and other subjects will be held. All day-time sessions will be in 205 Journalism building.
Professor to Teach German Institute
Joseph F. Meisels, assistant professor of social work, is taking a three months leave of absence to conduct an institute for German social workers in Bremen. He is departing from New York by plane today.
The institute was requested by German social workers and is being financed by the Ford foundation. The Unitarian Service committee is sponsoring the program with the approval of the U.S. State department.
Professor Meisels holds degrees from the University of Nebraska and the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at the latter school before joining the K.U. faculty in 1951.
The University's baseball schedule was completed late today with the addition of a game with Wichita university on the Memorial stadium diamond Monday, April 13.
Baseball Schedule Completed Today
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The draining of people from the campus began this morning, when those who feel that no vacation is a real vacation unless it's all vacation kissed classes goodbye and started for home, hoping to be there when the holiday officially starts tomorrow at noon. Most students, though, hang grimly on until the end of classes.
The great bulk of the student body will force itself into automobiles, buses, and trains in the hours beginning late this afternoon, forgetting in their haste how many times they've sung at football games about their unflagging devotion to the University.
As though driven by fear of the plague, they will try to get away from "the dear old mater" in any way possible. According to the Lawrence bus depot, "It's always slow up until Friday afternoon, and then, look out!"
The number of students on the Hill tomorrow will probably be about 500, judging from past vacations. As usual, many Union services and the library will be open during certain hours, and much construction and maintenance work will be carried on.
On all vacation days but Easter, the cafeteria will serve breakfast from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., lunch from 11:30 a.m., to 12:30 p.m., and dinner from 5 to 6 p.m. Breakfast on Easter will be served from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m., and lunch from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m.
The Hawk's Nest will close its doors at 10:30 p.m. today and open for limited hours the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday before vacation ends. Persons who haunt the Hill during vacations because they live too far away to go home for just a week report that the closed, empty Hawk's Nest gives the bleakest tone to the ghostly campus atmosphere during holidays.
Organized houses will be watched closely, according to campus police Chief Joe Skillman.
Watson library will be open between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. tomorrow, and will close all day Easter. It will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays next week, and close again on the Sunday before classes resume.
C. G. Bayles, superintendent of the buildings and grounds service, has listed three projects which will be undertaken by his crews next week. Some partitions in the basement of Hoch auditorium need changing, the concrete floor of the Robinson gymnasium basement must be painted, and some changes in stepping up voltage of primary electric cables must be made, he said.
Buildings and grounds will also continue sodding the heretofore barren area of the grass surface of the residence halls in the Alumni place area, Mr. Bayles said.
M/Sgt. Graves Meyers, instructor in Air Science, has been recalled to active duty by the Air Force and will report for duty as a Lieutenant Colonel with a pilot rating.
Sgt. Meyers, from Summerville, Ga., served in the Air Force in World War II. When the armed services went through heavy demobilization after the war, Sgt. Meyer chose to stay on active duty as an instructor.
Meyers Gets Boost In Call to Active Duty
Weather
Rain and colder temperatures came to Kansas last night. The temperature dropped below freezing everywhere in the western two-thirds of the state when it was 36 degrees. The eastern half of the state had light rain.
Lowest temperature last night was 20 degrees at Goodland. Afternoon high yesterday ranged from 57 at Hill City to 71 at Chanute and Wichita-
The weather bureau predicted fair skies for tonight and Saturday and cooler weather in the east tonight, with frost in the northeast. It will be warmer tomorrow afternoon.